873840 - mtnlion slaves timeout in puppet

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: Puppet, task)

Description

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Usually

Sat May 18 12:29:04 -0700 2013 /Stage[main]/Timezone/Osxutils::Systemsetup[timezone]/Exec[osx_systemsetup -settimezone America/Los_Angeles]/unless (err): Check "/usr/sbin/systemsetup -gettimezone | awk -F \": \" '{print $2}' | grep -i America/Los_Angeles" exceeded timeout

but also, just once

Tue May 14 16:21:34 -0700 2013 /Stage[main]/Disableservices::Common/File[/Users/cltbld/Library/Preferences/com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist] (err): Could not evaluate: Operation timed out - connect(2) Could not retrieve file metadata for puppet:///disableservices/com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist: Operation timed out - connect(2) at /etc/puppet/production/modules/disableservices/manifests/common.pp:123

so I suspect that this is not related to the systemsetup call.

It happens very occasionally - we see around one error per day - and the host just retries the puppet run without any problems.  So there's very little impact, but it would be nice to solve this.

Comment 1

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

This is happening on Lion, as well -- at least, the timezone one.  I don't know why getting the timezone would timeout, unless it's doing some network communication we don't know about.

Comment 2

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

When we rearchitect the system to do bare metal installs, we will no longer have puppet on slaves.